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2001-11-12
Anton Pavlovich Chekov
B. 1.29.1860 Taganrog, Russia / D. 7.14.1904 Badenweiler, Germany
Tuberculosis
The Rockaways. Cops and ex-cops and firemen and their childhood brides and children occupying for generations�as they tend to do here�all the choicest territory by the sea.
The sea, the sea! Community keeps on eroding�the social fabric�s fraying around the holes and seams if not already fallen into moth-soiled strips and thread dust. Far beyond repair.
Maybe people are just harder to be around now�to be near�than people used to be. Back before there were so many full-fledged individuals going about in a prime-time-ready state of display.
Sounding off about their conditions, emotions, suspicions�bearing witness and off-the rack tidings� Look up!
Too late. It may be more wearing on the nervous system than a body�s built to bear.
And all the while you�re remembering that nuclear warhead they had hanging on the wall throughout the whole first act. Out by the playground at Logan-shaken Point Shirley, when the sun and noise would turn the tidal mud into a vast plain of slick honeycomb tiles�how the shadows of the terrifying jumbo jets would catch and pool up in the cracks between them.